Unemployment rates were lower in May from a year earlier in 274 of 372 metropolitan areas in the U.S., the Labor Department said Wednesday, with the biggest declines occurring in manufacturing areas scattered around the Midwest.

The Rockford, Ill metropolitan area saw the biggest percentage point drop, with the unemployment rate dropping to 10.7% from 14.2%. Close behind: Flint, Mich., with a drop from 14.3% to 10.9%; Elkhart-Goshen, Ind., with a drop from 14.4% to 10.1%; and Muskegon-Norton Shores Mich. with a drop from 13.5 to 10.4.

The lowest unemployment rate in the country? Bismark, N.D. For those considering moving to America’s jobs Mecca, consider that the low temperature reached this winter in Bismark was minus 32.

Yuma, Ariz. had the highest unemployment rate in the country — 27.9%. El Centro, Calif. was next (27.7%) followed by a bevy of areas in California’s Central Valley.

The Labor Department does not adjust metropolitan area unemployment rates for seasonal swings, which in farming areas and vacation hotspots can be massive, so care needs to be taken when comparing unemployment rates from one month to the next. But the Tuscaloosa, Ala. area, which was hit by a deadly tornado in late April, saw its unemployment rate jump to 9.3% in May from 8.1% a month earlier.

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